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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: tv switch box
Keywords: connection
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Date: 28 Nov 89 19:17:01 GMT
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In article <2473@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> sabba@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (diane.sabba) writes:
>I have connected the Atari computer to my Sony trinitron via
>the Atari switch box.  

>Everything works great with the computer when the switch box
>is set to game.  But when we want to watch TV programs and
>set the switch box to TV, the picture is too fuzzy.

Those switch boxes contain splitters to keep the impedances right.
One undesireable effect of splitters is they attenuate the signal.
I have a TV that requires a stronger signal than many, plus I live 
on the fringe area of the Boston TV range, and have seen that effect.
You could try an antenna amplifier between the antenna and the switch
box; I didn't need to, as cable TV moved in shortly after.  Antenna
amps can probably be had for $10 or $20, and I'd try Rat Shack.

If you try it, would you mind posting your results?  I for one would
like to know.
-Stan